LWB 'bent plan

Steve Watkin said:

Upon reading Gunner Fehlau's book The Recumbent Cycle
(page 33) I came accross the mention of a plan for the
home building of a LWB 'bent that was published by a
German TV programe called Hobbythek in 1984. Are these
plans still available?

No, there was even a manufacturer offering a simple
aluminium frame, but it was discontinued long years ago. The
man behind this bike is Burghard Fleischer, publisher of Pro
Velo, a (former?) quite scientific bicycle magazin. He built
and rode one himself, using it every day for commuting.
Probably the closest today available thing to his concept
you will find here: dutchbikes.nldutchbikes.nlOpen ↗

There must have been many of these Hobbythek recumbents
around. While it may be true they infected several
homebuilders with the virus of recumbency, I suspect
they also did a lot to create the image of recumbents as
"junk bikes".

Kurt

Thanks Kurt. I was aware of the Dutch speed bike site but I
was hoping to find a LWB to mess around with!

SW

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Steve Watkin said:

Upon reading Gunner Fehlau's book The Recumbent Cycle
(page 33) I came accross the mention of a plan for the
home building of a LWB 'bent that

was

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published by a German TV programe called Hobbythek in
1984. Are these plans still available?

No, there was even a manufacturer offering a simple
aluminium frame, but it was discontinued long years ago.
The man behind this bike is Burghard Fleischer, publisher
of Pro Velo, a (former?) quite scientific bicycle magazin.
He built and rode one himself, using it every day for
commuting. Probably the closest today available thing to
his concept you will find here: dutchbikes.nldutchbikes.nlOpen ↗

There must have been many of these Hobbythek recumbents
around. While it may be true they infected several
homebuilders with the virus of recumbency, I suspect
they also did a lot to create the image of recumbents as
"junk bikes".

Kurt

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Thanks Kurt. I was aware of the Dutch speed bike site but
I was hoping to find a LWB to mess around with!

You could go for this TE clone : hpv-hpv-Open ↗
klub.dk/selvbygger/ADCARSON/default.asp (find the ZIP-file,
the drawings is in english) Remember to give feedback via
the webpage to
A.D.Carson if you build it.

Regards, Torben